Wednesday, November 19, 2025 | 3:00 PM
Politecnico di Milano - Leonardo Campus
Glass Hall (Building 13)
Abstract
This is IT!, the new edition of the annual event dedicated to showcasing the research activities of PhD candidates in Information Technology at the Politecnico di Milano, will take place on November 19, 2025, starting at 3:00 PM, in the Glass Hall of Building 13, Leonardo Campus.
It will be an afternoon full of insights and innovation, designed to give PhD students nearing the end of their studies the opportunity to publicly present the results of their research and to assess its potential impact on the industrial world. At the same time, the event represents a unique occasion for companies to discover the research carried out at the Politecnico di Milano in the fields of Computer Science, Electronics, Automation, and Telecommunications.
This year’s edition will be enriched by a keynote from Massimo Banzi, co-founder of Arduino, who will share his reflections on the theme of the democratization of technology. The event will conclude with a reception and live music, offering a moment of networking and exchange between the academic and industrial communities.
The afternoon will open at 3:15 p.m. with the keynote speech “Democratising Technology”, delivered by Massimo Banzi. The talk will offer a reflection on the role of technological innovation as a tool for democratization and inclusion, emphasizing the importance of knowledge sharing and the open-source approach in developing solutions accessible to everyone.
Following that, from 4:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., the first session of the PhD Talks will take place, dedicated to the Chorafas Foundation Award and the Florian Daniel Award. The session will feature frontier research in the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Bernardo Camajori Tedeschini will present his studies on cooperative learning and inference methods in multi-agent systems, aimed at improving their scalability, efficiency, and adaptability. Marco Mussi will present work focused on online learning methods for jointly optimizing pricing and advertising strategies in e-commerce contexts, with the goal of identifying more efficient and integrated sales strategies.
From 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., the second PhD Talks session, dedicated to the Springer Briefs Awards, will take place. It will offer a broad overview of the latest applications of artificial intelligence, advanced electronics, and next-generation networks. Silvia Cascianelli will explore the role of machine learning in oncogenomics, illustrating how these techniques can help analyze cancer heterogeneity and support precision medicine. Diego Morra will present a project focused on the use of accessible, AI-based toolkits to engage people with intellectual disabilities in the creation and customization of IoT technologies. Andrea Buffoli will offer insights into the future of inertial navigation through the development of piezoresistive MEMS gyroscopes. Antonio Consolo will present new optimization models and algorithms for interpretable and sparse machine learning models, while Davide Salvi will discuss the application of deep learning techniques for deepfake detection. The session will conclude with Qiaolun Zhang’s presentation on next-generation optical networks, with particular focus on sustainability, resilience, and security through quantum technologies.
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